Magistrate questions parole office closure plans
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A local magistrate has criticised plans to close the Murwillumbah parole office.
Jeff Linden says services to the court and to parolees in the area will suffer if seven staff from Murwillumbah are transferred to Lismore.
The Department of Corrective Services says an outreach program will ensure the office's 190 clients are not left without supervision.
But Mr Linden says that will not work.
"The whole function of the office depends on meeting people, speaking to people, monitoring people and where you've got to travel, it would have to be at least an hour and a quarter to get here and back, it just doesn't work like that," he said.
"Where do they see them?"
